My Back Yard

Before any more judgments are made about my home town look out of the window, turn on your radio and drive your car and know about everything that Michigan has done for you…


Police officer William L. Potts invented the traffic light in 1920. James Vernors invented Vernor’s pop 1862; Detroit of course was the only place that you could get any kind of pop and still the only place where you can get red pop. Will Keith Kellogg invented Kellogg Corn Flakes in 1894.Elijah McCoy invented The Real McCoy in1873 which oiled the parts of machinery while still working. This invention was a major asset to the railroad and factory industries all over the country.Henry Ford Invented the Model T Car and Founded the Ford Motor Company. William R. Hewlett Invented Audio Oscillator and Co-founded Hewlett-Packard . Donald B. Keck invented Fiber Optics. John T. Parsons invented the Motor Controlled Apparatus for Positioning Machine Tool Numerical Control. John C. Sheehan invented Synthesis of Natural Penicillin. Harold Stephen Anderson Thomas Edison Mucker. Daniel Gerber (1873 - 1952) Invented Canned Baby Food in 1927. William Boeing (1881 - 1956) Founded of the Boeing Aircraft company Benjamin Carson.